Automatic individual paper-towel and toilet-paper dispenser.



N. S. HILLYARD.

AUTOMATIC INDIVIDUAL PAPER TOWEL AND TOILET PAPER DISPENSER. APPLICATIONFILED DEC. 30. I915.

1,188,174. Patented June 20,1916.

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Specification of letters Patent.

Patented: June 20, 1916.

ai p igaa n 111m D 0,13 5- mamma- 4 To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, NEWTON S.

YARD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Joseph,in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Automatic Individual Paper-Towel andToilet-Paper Dispensers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a fixture for dispensingindividual perforated paper towels and toilet paper whereby a large partof the waste of paper which now occurs with the fixtures used will beprevented.

the assembling of the parts in siich posi- .tlOIl as Wlll permit theopposite axle F and its end of the frame to be pressed outward asufficient distance to allow for the replacement of paper towels ortoilet paper I when a supply thereof is exhausted as shown in Fig. 3.Each of said caps is provided with a lug J and near each end of theframe, at the top thereof, there is an inwardly turned flange K.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings it will beseen that the lugs J on caps C on the ends of the roller are so locatedthat they insure proper engagement with the flanges K on the frame Inthe accompanying drawings Figure 1 is to prevent the roller being thrownor re a top view of the roller the upper half of the roll of paper cutaway, showing the lower half of the roll of paper and the frame and axlesupporting said roller, and mechanism at the ends of the axle forlimiting the revolution of the roller for dispensing an individual sheetof paper at a revolution; Fig. 2 is an end view of the axle, paper andsupporting frame shown in normal position, the dotted lines' showing theabnormal position when the paper is being detached; Fig. 3 is a frontview of the frame, with the axle in position for replenishing the rollerwith paper towels or toilet paper; Fig. 4 is a front View of one end ofthe roller, frame, axle, nut, lug and flange when in normal position;and Fig. 5 is'an end View of the roller with metal cap thereon showing athreaded bolt or rod in the center to hold the caps rigidly to each endof the roller, a perforation in said cap to receive the axle and a lugto limit the throw of the roller which by means of engaging with aflange on the ends of the frame prevents the fixture allowing thedetaching of more than one towel or toilet paper at a single operation.

Corresponding letters refer to corresponding parts throughout theseveral views, the letter A representing the roller which has one sidepartially flattened as indicated by A in Fig. 1 of the drawings. B is ametal frame for supporting said roller and C C are metal caps heldrigidly on the ends of the roller by means of bolts or rod D. E is aperforation in eachof said caps and F and F are threaded screw boltsserving as axles for the roller. H H are chambers or openings in theends of the roller, as shown in said Fig. 1, to receive said axles, andH is a nut on the inner end of axle F placed thereon volved forwardbeyond a position that will permit the same revolving backward when thepaper is detached from the roll. After individual paper or towel isdispensed which is at a time when the roller is in abnormal position,said roller is automatically and instantly thrown back to its normalposition on account of the roller being engaged with the axle on aneccentric, in which position it will remain until the end of the nexttowel or toilet paper is drawn forward. Said device operating on aneccentric with the proper adjustments of the lugs and flanges to limitthe travel of the roller backward and forward insures its revolution tonormal and abnormal positions, obviating springs or other mechanicalmeans. I

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a fixture-for detachable towels and toilet paper the combinationwith a metal frame attachable to the side of a wall, spring metal endsto said frame bent forward at corresponding right angles and a rollerhaving chambers at its ends of different length, of a flange cut andbent horizontally inward from the top edge of each end of said frame, ascrew bolt serving as an axle through the threaded openings in the endsof the frame, a single lug on each end of the roller adapted to engagewith the flange on the frame at each partial revolution. of the roller,a nut on the inner end of the longer axle to prevent said axle frombecoming detached from its end of the roller when necessary to springthe opposite metal end of the frame and its inner end of the longer axleto prevent the roller becoming detached.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of tWoWitnesses.

NEVTON S. HILLYARD. Witnessesz' W. E. HILLYARD, MARIE MITCHELL.

ing a metal frame, spring metal ends to said frame bent forward atcorresponding right angles, threaded caps on said ends With threadedperforations therein, a bolt threaded at each end serving as an axle,said axles being of different lengths, a partially fiattened rollerprovided With a chamber of different length at each end and a nut on theQopiea of this patent may be obtained Ior five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner sf Patents.

Washington, D. 0.

